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by dragonwriter 479 days ago
You don't need to suspend elections you just need to subvert them. For-show elections make good dictatorial theater.
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Yeah, I was going to say that the most likely thing is "making the voting process more secure and reliable to make sure elections are fair" by setting up voting machines and counting processes run entirely by loyalists, but that's less punchy and didn't fit the metaphor.